British women win World Champs team silver

04 September 2010

The University of Bath-based Britain women’s modern pentathlon team today (Saturday) won the team silver medal at the World Championships in China. Beijing 2008 Olympic silver medallist Heather Fell was the highest placed British finisher in the individual competition in eighth. Team-mate Freyja Prentice, aged 20, produced the third fastest run/shoot of the day, climbing from 16th going into the run/shoot to end the day in a creditable ninth. Twenty-year-old Samantha Murray, competing at her...